A side-conversation with a psychologist, a designer and a couple of other folk, which hit my professional life so directly, I wonder how much of my airfare I can get on to work’s training budget… Maybe if I finish these scribblings into something coherent.

Be there: ask the questions. “How are you feeling?”

To use larp as a designer – simply by playing a role; designer vs. intern, yes. But also to use roleplay to understand experiences.

To play a role to understand those who truly have that role. You need to brief and research.

So empathic research needs to be based on the *right* amount of background – as we’d use the word in larp.

Roleplaying to give *some* voice to the underrepresented.

Roleplaying to give an alibi to critical opinion. “It’s not only my opinion”

Roleplaying to explore the experience of others.

The shared element here seems to be the discussion of the narrative afterwards – the meta-level. Groups who aren’t familiar with roleplay might use the artificiality of roleplaying to criticise the practice.